Contemplating Cragg's monumental
sculptures and Landy's found materials, it is
easy for one to dissociate these fine artists with the products of
Kenneth Grange. Yet, and stating the obvious, this is the point of the blog, a
subjective perspective illustrating the view's of my own understanding of art
and product design, culminated from my 3D design module.
"A limit of selfishness, in
this, every designer should want to own and live with what he or she
designs."- Taken from an interview
with Kenneth Grange.
Granges words create a solid
foundation for my own argument to be built upon, that creativity is inevitably linked
through the absence of subordinated control; that creativity and originality
can ultimately arise from the individual, forming the intangible link between
all three of the creators. However it would be easy to polarise Grange for his
purposeful products, each separately briefed with a clear cut purpose. Working
for the speaker manufacture Bowers &
Wilkins emphasises this, as his primary aim was to enhance the owners
listening experience, and therefore develop the product.
And yet there is an air of ignorance
within a description enclosing a designer as simply a manufacture, unable of
creative thought, as the evolution of his speaker design exemplifies.
As I look into the shear scale of the
second, furthest away speaker I can't help but compare it to the scope of Tony
Cragg, as it becomes far more than simply a sound making device. In a similar
way, Cragg's sculptures offer far more than a simple aesthetic thrill...
Ultimately it is individualistic
consciousness, which formulates an artists form, and in this sense Kenneth
Grange can be described as a fine artist. Yet, in doing this, defining a
designer as a fine artist one begins to question the very notion of art itself,
and it is fairly obvious where this trail of thought is going...
All three are artist's in their own
right, and although a description exemplifying this notion of creativity has already
been described, returning to it would only reiterate my only serving point, and
therefore further emphasis has been forgotten, leaving behind the final thought
of simply a student of art.
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